Erykah Badu's New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)

Erykah Badu's New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh) - Paperback

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Erykah Badu's New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh) - Paperback

Erykah Badu's New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh) - Paperback

by Kameryn Alexa Carter
$16.15
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Conceived and first composed on her laptop at home, with some vocals recorded in her bathroom, Erykah Badu's New Amerykah Part Two is lo-fi and highly sophisticated-exquisitely analog and experimentally techy.

Erykah Badu's New Amerykah Part Two is lofi and highly sophisticated-exquisitely analog and experimentally techy. It begins with a radio signal tuning in, and it asks its listener to participate in their own process of attunement, to listen to familiar sounds anew, and open ourselves to an alternate Amerykah. An organism at once cohesive and discordant, it flows, jams, grooves, bounces. It transforms.

Placing Badu in an intertextual constellation of artists and critics from Stevie Wonder, to Amiri Baraka, to Alice Coltrane, Kameryn Alexa Carter explores whether neo-soul is dead, acknowledges Baduizm as a potent form of Black female spirituality, and tunes into Badu's "freakquencies", taking the reader through a series of synesthetic dream sequences as she revisits the album again and again.
ISBN9798765106464
Author Kameryn Alexa Carter
PublisherBloomsbury Academic
GenreYoung adult
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages128
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Kameryn Alexa Carter is a poet and founding coeditor of Emergent Literary, a journal for the work of black and brown artists. She was a visiting teaching artist at the Poetry Foundation and is a Pushcart Prize winner. Her work has appeared in Bennington Review, Phoebe Journal, Torch Literary Arts, Bat City Review, The Best American Poetry 2023, and elsewhere. She is the author of Erykah Badu's New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh.

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